Japanese culture and behavior : selected readings / edited by Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P. Lebra. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, 1930-

Lebra, William P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 428 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Moral Values and Sentiments

1. Human Nature in the Japanese Myths

2. The Monkey Memorial Service of Japanese Primatologists

3. A Culture of Love and Hate

4. Compensative Justice and Moral Investment among Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans

5. Individual, Group and Seishin: Japan's Interned Cultural Debate

6. The Relation of Guilt toward Parents to Achievement and Arranged Marriage among the Japanese

Part Two: Interaction, Communication, and Grouping

7. An Ethnography of Dinner Entertainment in Japan

8. Amae: A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure

9. "Male Chauvinism" as a Manifestation of Love in Marriage

10. Language and Behavior in Japan: The Conceptualization of Personal Relations

11. Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan

12. Criteria of Group Formation

13. Skiing Cross-Culturally

Part Three: Development and Socialization

14. Maternal Care and Infant Behavior in Japan and America

15. Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families

16. Ethics and Moral Precepts Taught in Schools of Japan and the United States

17. Violence in the Home: Conflict between Two Principles— Maternal and Paternal

18. "Spirituell Education" in aJapanese Bank

Part Four: Cultural Stress, Psychotherapies, and Resocialization

19. Nonmedical Healing in Contemporary Japan: A Psychiatric Study

20. Self-Reconstruction in Japanese Religious Psychotherapy

21. Japanese Attitudes toward Mental Health and Mental Health Care

22. Fear of Eye-to-Eye Confrontation among Neurotic Patients in Japan

23. Naikan Therapy

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [399]-417.

ISBN:

0-8248-4152-2

0-585-32312-7

OCLC:

1253312966